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The focus of this thesis is on the relevance of the healing traditions of the Sámi people of Northern Norway to the existing health services. Though the Sámi are unique as an indigenous people in the area, the case of the Sámi is to some degree representative of all people living in this region of Northern Norway as the Sámi, Kven and Norwegian cultures have in many areas mixed, and the traditional worldviews are highly palpable aspects of the multicultural fabric of
the area.
The question of the role of local healing practices within the health services might even be thought to be superfluous. From one perspective, including the local medical tradition in public health services might be thought to be an obvious necessity, a matter of unquestionable relevance. One answer to the question of integration of healing traditions, especially within the
mental health services, might be that local healing traditions certainly deserve a central place, and that the question should rather be turned around, asking to what degree other medical traditions from other cultural environments should have a role. In one way, it is a paradox, that the role of local healing traditions within local health services should even be questioned, yet, as
most understand, the fact that it is has many historic and social reasons.
The issues raised in this thesis do not have any simple answers, and its goal has not been to attempt to provide any. However, a major inspiration for embarking on this project is a sense that the subject deserves special attention in this area, and that the questions, though they have no simple answers, should be given consideration and awareness.

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